Mens & Maatschappij - Volume 98, Issue 4, 2023

Abstract Noble burgomasters. The German occupation of the Netherlands as opportunity for the nobility to regain power? The revision of the constitution in 1848 ended the constitutional role of the nobility. Their national political power declined from the end of the 19th century in line with the modernisation theory. Data collected on all burgomasters for 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940 confirm this trend at the local level: the p Read More

Abstract Street harassment. So what? A quantitative study of the consequences of sexual street harassment of college students in Groningen Sexual harassment in the street is a form of microaggression that takes many different forms, including whistling, hissing, yelling, insulting, asking for sex, chasing, or cornering. Sexual street harassment is a social problem. A material risk of using the public realm is that some may a Read More

Abstract A longitudinal study of decreased trust during the corona pandemic This study provides a longitudinal analysis of the strong decline in trust in the government in the Netherlands during the corona pandemic in 2020/2021. At the start of the pandemic, 69 per cent of the Dutch population had (much) trust in the government. One and a half year later this was declined to only 29 per cent. Using multilevel regression we studi Read More